Edited William Butts (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Fine in wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Vol. 1, No. 1. Slim octavo. 31pp. With two illustrations. Stapled printed wrappers. Wrappers modestly sunned at the spine and edges else fine. Prints "'Whatever Roots We Had in the Soil': Malcolm Cowley and the American Scholar" by Adam Gussow, and "On Publishing 'The Urn'" by Charles Seluzicki, among other material.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 47pp. Illustrated. Stapled printed wrappers. Text block edges and covers slightly foxed, very good. An issue in honor of Cowley's 90th birthday, with a reprint of his "Racine" with an afterword by Ashley Brown; additional contributions by William Jay Smith, Richard Eberhart, Archibald MacLeish, Robert B. Heilman and more.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 31pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Illustrated. Rear wrap with a small ink mark, covers with light, uneven sunning and a bit of foxing, very good. Includes "'Whatever Roots We Had in the Soil': Malcolm Cowley and the American Scholar" by Adam Gussow, "On Publishing 'The Urn'" by Charles Seluzicki and more.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Octavo. xx, 266pp. Fine in trifle bumped fine dust jacket. A bright copy.

Reprint (first published 1931). xx, 263 pages. Hardcover: H 22.5cm x L 14.75cm. No dust jacket (likely as issued). Maroon cloth; vibrant gilt stamping to front board and spine. Foxing to text block edges. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. With a Preface, Introduction which includes an Appreciation of the author by W.W. Magruder, and Index. Features fourteen chapters: {I} "Last Stand of the Choctaws;" {II} "Removal of the Choctaws;" {III} "Establishment of Oktibbeha County: 1833-37;" {IV} "Dark Days: 1837-48;" {V} "Prosperity: 1848-60;" {VI} "Master and Slave: 1832-61;" {VII} "War between the States: 1861-65;" {VIII} "Reconstruction: First Period, 1865-70;" {IX} "Reconstruction: Second Period, 1870-78;" {X} "A Drift to Town: 1878-90;" {XI} "Cooperation: 1890-1916;" {XII} "Fruits of the Great War: 1916-24;" {XIII} "Five Years of Progress: 1923-28;" and {XIV} "Officers and the Machinery of Law: 1833-1932." Published posthumously from the author's notes, Judge Thomas B. Carroll (1860-1923) reviews events in Starkville and Oktibbeha County, Mississippi from the region's original Choctaw Indians to American settlement in the early 1800s as well as the antebellum slavery era continuing through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and early twentieth century. {MS-Shelf #9|CMS-02152}. …

Reprint (first published 1931). xx, 263 pages. Hardcover: H 22.5cm x L 14.75cm. No dust jacket (likely as issued). Maroon cloth; vibrant gilt stamping to front board and spine; spine heel lightly bumped. Faint of foxing to top edge and fore-edge; two-line ink ownership inscription on front pastedown; top fore-edge corner of pages 167-168 creased from past fold-down; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. With a Preface, Introduction which includes an Appreciation of the author by W.W. Magruder, and Index. Features fourteen chapters: {I} "Last Stand of the Choctaws;" {II} "Removal of the Choctaws;" {III} "Establishment of Oktibbeha County: 1833-37;" {IV} "Dark Days: 1837-48;" {V} "Prosperity: 1848-60;" {VI} "Master and Slave: 1832-61;" {VII} "War between the States: 1861-65;" {VIII} "Reconstruction: First Period, 1865-70;" {IX} "Reconstruction: Second Period, 1870-78;" {X} "A Drift to Town: 1878-90;" {XI} "Cooperation: 1890-1916;" {XII} "Fruits of the Great War: 1916-24;" {XIII} "Five Years of Progress: 1923-28;" and {XIV} "Officers and the Machinery of Law: 1833-1932." Published posthumously from the author's notes, Judge Thomas B. Carroll (1860-1923) reviews events in Starkville and Oktibbeha County, Mississippi from the region's original Choctaw Indians to American settlement in the early 1800s as well as the antebellum slavery era continuing through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and early twentieth century. {MS-Shelf #6|CMS-02151}.…